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Broken by the Horde King
by Zoey Draven
Updated review from February 2023
I think this is my favorite romance of all time. And I don't say that lightly! But there's something so absolutely perfect about this book to me. I've read it countless times since I first picked it up in March of last year, and yet every time I re-read it - especially when I actually re-read it, not just skim through my highlights - I am MOVED by this book.
The emotions are so powerful. The friendship they shared as children, her deep love and adoration for him. His longing for her. The awkwardness and hurt between them.
Did I still cry while reading it this morning, as if I haven't read and re-read the words before?? Yes.
This book works as a standalone though you'll be missing out on the worldbuilding of this alien-barbarian world (think a people all like Khal Drogo from Game of Thrones, with a tail, set on a world with humans who immigrated there and are now second class citizens).
ITS JUST SO SO BEAUTIFUL.
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Original review from March 2022
I’m kind of shocked that this book is now my new favorite in the Horde Kings series… because I don’t usually enjoy second chance romances. BUT, childhood friends > adult friends > lovers is one of my all time favorite tropes and this is that, with a few twists along the way.
What made me love this book so much?
The heroine - Maeva - for one. She was found as a toddler by a hunter, and raised by him and his wife as his daughter alongside another daughter. She’s brilliant. She’s apprentice to the healer of her clan, with sights on being the head healer. She’s smart and funny and capable and kind.
The aforementioned childhood friends trope was too good. I was glad we only had a few flashback scenes, because I don’t love books that flip flop between past and present. We set the stage of the friendship between Maeva and Kiran, who had been the price of the clan before he became a leader. Their friendship, his protection and love for her as children and then his confusion as she grew into a woman, was so real.
And the groveling… the regret… MWAHAHA. It basically stretched the entire book, which I loved. I love a good grovel.
The overarching plot in this book kind of took a back burner - we learned more about the issues on their planet, a red mist that is coming and driving dangerous creatures west/south), but nothing is resolved by the end of the book. I wonder how the author will tie the overarching issues to the romantic storylines because for couples, they rarely intersect - the exception being in book 3, because the heroine had a power she harnessed from Kakkari, the goddess of the world.
Also I’m finding I wish we had more rap ups on the characters. We never got a satisfying conclusion between Kiran and his mother, or his mother and Maeva.
I think this is my favorite romance of all time. And I don't say that lightly! But there's something so absolutely perfect about this book to me. I've read it countless times since I first picked it up in March of last year, and yet every time I re-read it - especially when I actually re-read it, not just skim through my highlights - I am MOVED by this book.
The emotions are so powerful. The friendship they shared as children, her deep love and adoration for him. His longing for her. The awkwardness and hurt between them.
Did I still cry while reading it this morning, as if I haven't read and re-read the words before?? Yes.
This book works as a standalone though you'll be missing out on the worldbuilding of this alien-barbarian world (think a people all like Khal Drogo from Game of Thrones, with a tail, set on a world with humans who immigrated there and are now second class citizens).
ITS JUST SO SO BEAUTIFUL.
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Original review from March 2022
I’m kind of shocked that this book is now my new favorite in the Horde Kings series… because I don’t usually enjoy second chance romances. BUT, childhood friends > adult friends > lovers is one of my all time favorite tropes and this is that, with a few twists along the way.
What made me love this book so much?
The heroine - Maeva - for one. She was found as a toddler by a hunter, and raised by him and his wife as his daughter alongside another daughter. She’s brilliant. She’s apprentice to the healer of her clan, with sights on being the head healer. She’s smart and funny and capable and kind.
The aforementioned childhood friends trope was too good. I was glad we only had a few flashback scenes, because I don’t love books that flip flop between past and present. We set the stage of the friendship between Maeva and Kiran, who had been the price of the clan before he became a leader. Their friendship, his protection and love for her as children and then his confusion as she grew into a woman, was so real.
And the groveling… the regret… MWAHAHA. It basically stretched the entire book, which I loved. I love a good grovel.
The overarching plot in this book kind of took a back burner - we learned more about the issues on their planet, a red mist that is coming and driving dangerous creatures west/south), but nothing is resolved by the end of the book. I wonder how the author will tie the overarching issues to the romantic storylines because for couples, they rarely intersect - the exception being in book 3, because the heroine had a power she harnessed from Kakkari, the goddess of the world.
Also I’m finding I wish we had more rap ups on the characters. We never got a satisfying conclusion between Kiran and his mother, or his mother and Maeva.